Template talk:Infobox football biography
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What have you done to this?
[edit]All the football player inboxes have been reformatted and now the columns don't line up - they are all over the place! Look at the state of these Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham. This one has ventured outside the box itself Kylian Mbappé. Needs fixing or reverting asap!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcclh (talk • contribs) 22:22, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Rcclh: Nobody has done anything to this template. The problem is at a global level, see WP:VPT#Infobox problems. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:25, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ah ok, at least someone is onto it. Thanks for the reply. Rcclh (talk) 10:43, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Inconsistency on appearances
[edit]collegecaps indicates all competitions, but caps i.e. for pro clubs indicates only league competitions. Would that exclude national competitions such as FA Cup or continental club competitions such as Europa League?
And meanwhile, adding even more to the inconsistency, nationalcaps indicates not only all competitions, but friendlies as well?
Why all this inconsistency? Keith D. Tyler ¶ 06:52, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- @KeithTyler: Most sources give college statistics for all competitions, and do not differentiate between the regular season and tournaments. Meanwhile, while there often is data for club appearances in national leagues, statistics for cup competitions are notoriously more difficult to source, especially for the pre-internet era. For consistency's sake it was decided to only include league statistics. As for national teams, caps are awarded for all official appearances by a player for their country, regardless of whether it is a competitive or friendly match. For more information, see Exhibition game#International football. S.A. Julio (talk) 07:23, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
Short description
[edit]Why is the short description for this template "Rugby player"? Senior Captain Thrawn (talk) 16:15, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Senior Captain Thrawn: Because in the documentation, an example is given for the use of this template embedding/embedded in {{Infobox rugby biography}}. That rugby infobox automatically adds a short description if none is present, hence it gets added to this page. This could be fixed by adding a short description to Template:Infobox football biography/doc, or preventing {{Infobox rugby biography}} from adding short descriptions outside the mainspace. S.A. Julio (talk) 02:59, 30 August 2024 (UTC)